Dick Blume / The Post-StandardA statue of Benjamin Franklin overlooks a calm Franklin Square in Syracuse this morning. It was a different scene in Oswego County where snow closed one district and delayed six others.

Update:
Sandy Creek, NY – Sandy Creek schools are closed and six other Oswego County districts have delayed the start of classes this morning because of snowfall.

Oswego, Jefferson and Lewis counties remain under a lake effect snow warning until 6 p.m., the National Weather Service said. Three to 6 more inches of new snow is possible by then, the weather service said.

Snow totals from Oswego County had not been reported to the National Weather Service’s Buffalo office as of 7:50 a.m., said Kirk Apffel, a meteorologist at the Buffalo station.

But a spotter in the Oneida County town of Camden reported that 9 inches fell there overnight and parts of Oswego County probably saw similar amounts, Apffel said.

A lake-effect band blowing from the west off Lake Ontario set up across Oswego County, bringing significant snow between Pulaski and Palermo, Apffel said.

Snow is expected to slow up the morning rush-hour driving commute as visibilities fall to a quarter-mile, a weather service bulletin said.

The band is expected to drift northward this morning and may intensify as it does, the weather service said.